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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Diana Shannon wrote:
> Having worked with a Forrest setup for Cocoon, I was wondering how we
> can decrease the build time. It took me (on OSX 10.1 JVM 1.3.1) 30
> minutes to build the docs statically. Removing the pdf links (which
> prevents pdf generation) still took 24 minutes. I realize build times
> are somewhat irrelevant for bots, but, I fear committers won't preview
> their doc changes if build times are so long.
>
> Is this all because of the Cocoon command line? Do we have any options?
> Or have I overlooked some important configuration detail (e.g.
> cocoon.xconf). Or perhaps a problem with my setup.
Sounds like a system problem. I tried running C2 on my 300mhz ibook
running OS X and it was unbearably slow. I don't think Java on OS X is as
fast as it should be. You could also try upgrading to 10.2 (and 10.2.2
for that matter) and see if things are helped at all.
Tony
Tony Collen -- tc@socsci.umn.edu
College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, West Bank